There are several options to get to Karlsruhe by plane, train or bus:

By Plane

Baden-Airpark is the nearest airport, situated about 40km from the city. The airport is served by low-cost carrier Ryanair, which offers cheap flights to several European destinations. There is a cheap airport shuttle bus (Baden-Airport-Express) (leaving 8 times a day on weekdays, 3 times a day on saturdays, synchronized with the flight schedule) to Karlsruhe Main Station. One-way-tickets can be bought from the driver (9 EUR, cash only, accepted currency: Euro). Alternatively, you can take a bus to Rastatt or Baden-Baden and take a train or a tram-train to Karlsruhe. For more information and timetable visit: Hahn-Express Through-ticketing is available, for current prices and schedules see: Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (Karlsruhe Area Mass Transit Authority)

Frankfurt Airport is Germany's biggest airport and is served by all major carriers that operate in Germany. It has a direct ICE high-speed train connection to Karlsruhe (1 hour, around 35 Euro). For more information and timetables visit: Deutsche Bahn The cheaper option (1.5-2 hour, around 10 €) is the bus. You can use the following website to find out which bus lines suit your arrival time: Busliniensuche.de (Departure (Abfahrtsort): Frankfurt Flughafen / Destination (Zielort) : Karlsruhe)

From Stuttgart Airport, Karlsruhe is reachable by train in 1.5 hours (about 20 Euro). Furthermore there are special offers for groups (Baden-Württemberg Ticket is valid from 9:00 am to 03:00 am on the next day and costs 23 €. You can unlimitedly use trains except ICE & IC. You can take up to 4 people with you and each have to pay only 5 € more if you travel together) There is no direct connection, you have to change the train at Stuttgart Central Station. Deutsche Bahn However, there are several direct bus connections from Stuttgart airport to Karlsruhe Central Station (5-15 €). Busliniensuche.de (Departure (Abfahrtsort): Stuttgart Flughafen / Destination (Zielort) : Karlsruhe)

Frankfurt Hahn Airport is about 200km from Karlsruhe and reachable by car and bus. The airport is served by Ryanair and other low-cost carriers. There is an airport shuttle bus (Hahn-Express) leaving twice a day (28 Euro) to Karlsruhe Central Station. For the timetable visit: Hahn-Express

By Train

Karlsruhe is connected to several other larger cities by ICE high-speed trains and normal intercity trains. The schedules can be found here: Deutsche Bahn Karlsruhe Central station is located south of the city centre. It takes roughly 10 minutes by tram to the city centre (see below for more information about trams in Karlsruhe).

By Bus

There are bus connections to Karlsruhe from a lot of cities in Germany and other countries. The bus station is located at the south entrance of the train station. You can buy tickets for international destinations inside the train station. You can find suitable bus connection here: Busliniensuche.de

We will provide a room where we can lock (large) valuable articles. However, this will be without liability. We would recommend you to think carefully about what you bring, so ask yourself whether or not it is really necessary to bring your laptop, tablet, smart watch etc. when can you also leave them safely at home instead.

Additionally, it could be useful to bring a personal lock so that you can lock your luggage. Thereby, you will save us and yourself lots of trouble. If you have further questions concerning this topic feel free to contact us.

It is a gym so expect nothing to be there. This means you need to bring a sleeping bag, a pillow, a sleeping mat or whatever makes you comfortable.

Please bear in mind that there will be around 250 people sleeping in a gym so make sure that it is not the end of the world if something gets dirty, lost or damaged. Of course, we will do our best to avoid that, but we cannot guarantee it.

We know that most of you arrive by plane and are quite limited on the luggage you can bring so we will try to provide sleeping mats for all participants who are interested. At the moment, we are not sure if we have enough budget to provide them - we will give you an update about this topic in the Middle of February.

Please avoid further questions or comments regarding this topic - we know your concerns and try our best to offer you as much as possible, however our budget is limited and we have to figure out a way to make it work. As soon as we have an update we will send out information to all participants.